Geographic Latitude and the Efficacy of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vaccine

Efficacy of BCG Vaccine in the Prevention of Tuberculosis

1994 • 1,875 citations

Natural resistance to infection with intracellular parasites: Isolation of a candidate for Bcg

1993 • 1,107 citations

The Role of the Vitamin D Endocrine System in Health and Disease

1989 • 1,041 citations

Differences in vitamin D status between countries in young adults and the elderly

1992 • 627 citations

Ultraviolet Light Depletes Surface Markers of Langerhans Cells

1981 • 474 citations

The Epidemiology of Disseminated Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

1989 • 459 citations

Evidence for alteration of the vitamin D-endocrine system in blacks.

1985 • 457 citations

Tuberculosis in twins: a re-analysis of the Prophit survey.

1978 • 441 citations

The epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases in the United States. Results from a national survey.

1987 • 423 citations

An atlas of sensitivity to tuberculin, PPD-B, and histoplasmin in the United States.

1969 • 412 citations

UV exposure reduces immunization rates and promotes tolerance to epicutaneous antigens in humans: relationship to dose, CD1a-DR+ epidermal macrophage induction, and Langerhans cell depletion.

1992 • 374 citations

Mycobacterial Diseases Other Than Tuberculosis

1992 • 355 citations

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 suppresses human T helper/inducer lymphocyte activity in vitro.

1985 • 336 citations

Mycobacteria Other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Review of Microbiologic and Clinical Aspects

1987 • 322 citations

Effects of infection with atypical mycobacteria on BCG vaccination and tuberculosis.

1966 • 300 citations

Resistance to Tuberculosis

1964 • 249 citations

Metabolic polymorphisms and the role of infectious diseases in human evolution.

1960 • 248 citations

Isolation of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in the United States, 1980

1982 • 241 citations

Inhibition by 1,25(OH)2-vitamin D3 of the multiplication of virulent tubercle bacilli in cultured human macrophages

1987 • 239 citations

The role of gamma-interferon, vitamin D3 metabolites and tumour necrosis factor in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis.

1987 • 215 citations

IMMUNOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SOLARIUM EXPOSURE

1983 • 204 citations

Studies of Vitamin D Deficiency in Man

1975 • 199 citations

BCG vaccination against tuberculosis and leprosy

1988 • 176 citations

Epidemiology of infection by nontuberculous mycobacteria. I. Geographic distribution in the eastern United States.

1980 • 150 citations

Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-Linked Control of Susceptibility to Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Association with HLA-DR Types

1983 • 150 citations

Genetics and Resistance to Tuberculosis

1992 • 139 citations

Effect of β -carotene supplementation on photosuppression of delayed-type hypersensitivity in normal young men

1992 • 138 citations

Chromosomal DNA fingerprint patterns produced with IS6110 as strain-specific markers for epidemiologic study of tuberculosis

1991 • 137 citations

A comparison of the virulence in Guinea-pigs of south indian and British tubercle bacilli

1960 • 137 citations

The effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on in vitro immunoglobulin production in human B cells.

1986 • 113 citations

Evaluation of BCG vaccination among Puerto Rican children.

1974 • 88 citations

Recent Experience in the Epidemiology of Disease Caused by Atypical Mycobacteria

1981 • 88 citations

Effect of a single exposure to ultraviolet radiation on Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin infection in mice.

1989 • 84 citations

Research on BCG vaccination.

1984 • 83 citations

Neonatal bcg vaccination and mycobacterial cervical adenitis in childhood

1987 • 78 citations

Calcium, vitamin D-endocrine system, and parathyroid hormone in black and white males

1987 • 77 citations

What Animal Models Can Teach Us About the Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis in Humans

1989 • 76 citations

Identification of tuberculous infected. Dual tests and density of reaction.

1973 • 73 citations

The Effects of 8-Methoxypsoralen and Long-wave Ultraviolet Light on Langerhans Cell

1981 • 72 citations

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF TUBERCULIN SENSITIVITY

1958 • 72 citations

HLA-DR3 associated genetic control of response to multiple skin tests with new tuberculins.

1983 • 70 citations

Alteration of the immune response to Mycobacterium bovis BCG in mice exposed chronically to low doses of UV radiation

1990 • 69 citations

Risk Factors for Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Primary School Outbreak: Lack of Racial Difference in Susceptibility to Infection

1994 • 62 citations

ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION IN TRANSPLANTATION BIOLOGY

1988 • 60 citations

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIA

1970 • 59 citations

The Ecology of the Atypical Mycobacteria

1971 • 56 citations

Racial differences in susceptibility to infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

1990 • 55 citations

Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis and Effectiveness of BCG Vaccination

1982 • 53 citations

Natural resistance to infection with intracellular parasites: isolation of a candidate for Bcg

1993 • 52 citations

Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infections

1989 • 47 citations

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1982 • 45 citations

Evaluation of the Clinical Usefulness of Mycobacterial Skin Test Antigens in Adults with Pulmonary Mycobacterioses

1992 • 38 citations

Prophylactic effect in mice of BCG vaccination against non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections

1985 • 38 citations

Clinical Significance of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: A Bacteriological Survey of Swedish Strains isolated between 1973 and 1981

1986 • 37 citations

Does Vaccination with Bacille Calmette-Guerin Protect Against AIDS?

1989 • 36 citations

Immunogenetics of Mycobacterial Infections: Mouse-Human Homologies

1990 • 31 citations

IDENTIFICATION OF THE TUBERCULOUS‐INFECTED BY SKIN TESTS*

1968 • 30 citations

Disease caused by ‘atypical’ (opportunist) mycobacteria: A whole population review

1970 • 29 citations

Virulence for guinea pigs of tubercle bacilli isolated from the sputum of participants in the BCG trial, Chingleput district, South India

1987 • 25 citations

Epidemiologic aspects of nontuberculous mycobacterial disease and of tuberculosis in British Columbia.

1974 • 25 citations

The use of the mouse in a standardized test for antituberculous activity of compounds of natural or synthetic origin; choice of mouse strain.

1949 • 24 citations

Influence of the Virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on Protection Induced by Bacille Calmette-Guerin in Guinea Pigs

1981 • 23 citations

Studies in tuberculosis

1955 • 22 citations

Sources of Tuberculin Sensitivity in Human Populations. A Summing up of Recent Epidemiological Research.

1959 • 21 citations

The reaction to PPD-Battey. A new look.

1974 • 16 citations

Community-Wide Tuberculin Testing Study in Pamlico County, North Carolina1, 2

1965 • 15 citations

The significance of the response of mice to immunization with viable unclassified mycobacteria.

1961 • 14 citations

Skin-test sensitisation by tubercle bacilli and by other mycobacteria in ethiopian school-children

1984 • 14 citations

EFFECT OF BCG VACCINATION ON EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION WITH M. AVIUM

1966 • 14 citations

Experimental immunization of guinea pigs with photochromogenic acid-fast bacilli.

1962 • 10 citations

Perspectives for BCG standardization.

1968 • 10 citations

The role of genetics in the response to tuberculin and to other mycobacterial sensitins.

1988 • 9 citations

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES OF TUBERCULIN SENSITIVITY

1960 • 7 citations

Comparative study of skin-test reactions to various mycobacterial antigens in Choctaw County, Oklahoma.

1967 • 4 citations

Influence of Vaccination-Challenge Interval on the Protective Efficacy of Bacille Calmette-Guerin Against Low-Virulence Mycobacterium tuberculosis

1981 • 3 citations